Next Big Futures article How to create a theme in C# or VB?
If you’re new to C#, VB, or HTML5, you’re probably not getting the most out of these tools.
Learn how to build your own theme, and use it to build some awesome stuff with code and images.
We’ll show you how to combine CSS, JavaScript, and images to create amazing themes with a minimal amount of effort.
We’re not going to go into any deep technical jargon here, but if you’re already familiar with C# and VB and want to build something more sophisticated, we’d suggest looking at the tutorials.
And if you already know VB or HTML, we’ll give you the basics.
We’ve covered how to create an awesome theme in VB before, but you might want to skip ahead and dive right in.
What’s a theme?
Theme is an abbreviation for theme architecture.
You can think of a theme architecture as the architecture that powers your website.
For example, you might have a homepage with an interface that looks like this: a big yellow arrow next to the navigation bar.
Or maybe you have a website that looks something like this one: a green arrow next in the navigation path.
We all know how important it is to have a consistent design, right?
We want everything to be as intuitive as possible.
To make sure everything is in sync, we need a theme.
That means the whole site must be able to use the same colors and styles.
We need a design that matches our user interface.
This means everything from the navigation to the footer should look the same, and everything in between should have a similar look.
To build that design, we use the CSS properties for styling the elements.
We also use the JavaScript properties to build the styling, such as the background color and padding and so on.
The markup for a website typically consists of the code for the main menu, and the footers and sidebar, which all live in one file.
A lot of websites use HTML tags to describe their content.
For a theme, we write CSS classes and JavaScript to define the styling.
But that’s not all we need to do.
Our website needs to be able go through the theme and get all the different parts of our site in sync.
That’s where the code comes in.
The HTML tag for each element on our site is called a style sheet.
Stylesheets can be anything from a short paragraph that describes the main navigation of the website to an entire page of code that describes every single page of the site.
This allows us to reuse the same markup and styles across multiple elements on the same page.
So a theme can contain multiple styles for the same element, and all of them are compatible with each other.
For an example of how to use a styleheet, check out the following code: /* This style sheet can be used for styling an entire site */ body { font-family: “Verdana Sans”, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 30px; margin: 5px 0px 0; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid #d8d8dd; } /* … */ Now you can add CSS to an element of your website by using the CSS selector syntax: .
And we can apply styles to elements using the same syntax: .section { font: bold 10pt Verdana Sans, sans-italic; line: 0; } .footer { font.height: 25px; } And that’s it.
If you’ve ever worked on a website, you’ve probably come across the word “code” or “style”.
But there’s more to CSS than that.
The syntax for describing CSS properties is different from JavaScript.
For instance, the syntax for the text-decoration property of a class can be more like JavaScript’s className property: className { font : “Verdanana Sans”; } You can use the syntax in your CSS, too.
For our example, we can use it with the .section class: .nav-wrapper { text-align: center; padding : 5px; background-color: #e6f6f4; border-radius: 5%; } .nav .footers { padding: 5% 20px; font: Verdana, sans:serif;} The CSS property syntax is similar to JavaScript.
You use the name of the property, and then you write a function that returns the value of that property.
In this case, the function returns the property text-transform: uppercase, which means text-transition: all; .
So for our navigation, we want to use text-orientation: fixed to show the correct content on the nav bar. We
